Horst Buchholz

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Horst Buchholz, German film actor (born Dec. 4, 1933, Berlin, Ger.—died March 3, 2003, Berlin), enjoyed a lengthy career in several countries and was best known in the U.S. for his role in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and the Billy Wilder farce One, Two, Three (1961). The strikingly handsome Buchholz had his first screen role in Marianne de ma jeunesse (1954). He won a best young actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the 1955 film Himmel ohne Sterne (released in the U.S. as Sky Without Stars). His starring role in Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957; The Confessions of Felix Krull) brought him international notice, and in 1959 he starred in the British movie Tiger Bay. In 1997 he appeared as a Nazi doctor in the Academy Award-winning film La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful).